[PATCH] perf: ARM64: wire up perf_regs and unwind support

[Jean Pihet]

Hi Jiri,


On 12 February 2014 14:09, Jiri Olsa <jolsa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:17:07PM +0100, Jean Pihet wrote:
>> This patch hooks in the perf_regs and libunwind code for ARM64.
>> The tools/perf/arch/arm64 is created; it contains the arch specific
>> code for DWARF unwinding.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <jean.pihet at linaro.org>
>> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
>
> SNIP
>
>> + */
>> +const char *get_arch_regstr(unsigned int n)
>> +{
>> +     const struct pt_regs_dwarfnum *roff;
>> +     for (roff = regdwarfnum_table; roff->name != NULL; roff++)
>> +             if (roff->dwarfnum == n)
>> +                     return roff->name;
>> +     return NULL;
>> +}
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/unwind.c b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/unwind.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..8d37a4c
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/unwind.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
>> +
>> +#include <errno.h>
>> +#include <libunwind.h>
>> +#include "perf_regs.h"
>> +#include "../../util/unwind.h"
>> +
>> +int unwind__arch_reg_id(int regnum)
>
>
> I think this ^^^ wouldn't compile over acme/perf/core, bacause of
> the recent code changes for the libdw unwind:
>
> 1d86598 perf callchain: Rename unwind__arch_reg_id into libunwind__arch_reg_id
That is correct, the patch is for mainline.
Re-sending a rebased version on acme/perf/core in a bit.

> jirka

Thanks,
Jean